Birthday Party Etiquette
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Birthday Party Etiquette
| Sat, 02-17-2007 - 9:09am |
DD turned 11 on Tuesday so last night we had her birthday party (4 of the kids are still here). DD handed out her invitations on the 6th, she included our phone number with the RSVP. Well not one parent called me to say if their child was coming. Three of the kids at school told her they were coming and i had to call the twins mother on Wednesday to see if they were coming. All of the kids she invited did show up but i thought it was rather inconsiderate not to call. Sometimes kids say they are coming without checking with mom or dad.
The other thing i found rather annoying is the party is over at 11. As we all know kids go to bed rather late when they are at a sleepover. When one of the girls showed up she tells me her mother is picking her up at eight because she has a basketball game. I am thinking are you kidding me? So now not only do i have to be up by 7:30 sure enough she woke all of the other kids up at 7:15. Why wouldn't the mom have called me to check to see if this was alright. I would have preferred her mother pick her up at 10 or 11 last night so that the rest of the kids could have had a chance at a decent nights sleep. What do you think? I am overreacting because i am tired.
Kelly
The other thing i found rather annoying is the party is over at 11. As we all know kids go to bed rather late when they are at a sleepover. When one of the girls showed up she tells me her mother is picking her up at eight because she has a basketball game. I am thinking are you kidding me? So now not only do i have to be up by 7:30 sure enough she woke all of the other kids up at 7:15. Why wouldn't the mom have called me to check to see if this was alright. I would have preferred her mother pick her up at 10 or 11 last night so that the rest of the kids could have had a chance at a decent nights sleep. What do you think? I am overreacting because i am tired.
Kelly

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I don't know...I do expect a reasonable amount of sleep to be happening at a sleepover.
Sure, they get to stay up later than a normal bedtime.
But, I don't expect that they are going to be up all night either.
Maybe it's because so often our overnights are in conjunction with Girl Scouts, and the camps have a definite lights out and quiet time to follow. Plus, if I am going to be with the kids trying to do activities all the next day - I sure don't want everyone cranky. So, I've always enforced actually sleeping by about 11.
It's always just carried over when it's a friendly sleepover. At my daughter's birthday I went up to tell them that it was time at about 11:15, and they were already in their sleeping bags with the lights off. LOL - talk about easy.
She had a friend stay the night on New Year's Eve this year. They were determined to make it until midnight. About 12:05 they both got up and went to bed.
The one time they were at a sleepover where certain girls kept others awake all night - they both were annoyed and said the party was no fun!
I guess it makes no sense to me that it would be ok to keep everyone up until 3 or 4 in the morning, but not ok to wake people up early. One's just as rude as the other to me.
For us, we've always had 11-7 quiet time. They have lots of fun at the party, respect the quiet time, and have fun the next day too because they aren't dead tired.
Never had a problem with it really.
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